[Sugar-devel] About show-launcher option

Daniel Narvaez dwnarvaez at gmail.com
Mon Jan 13 10:06:22 EST 2014


IMO it should be deprecated and then removed at some point. In general, I
think our approach to API stability is way too ad hoc. We need some rules,
even if very simple, to define what is public, how/when it is deprecated,
and how/when it is removed.


On 13 January 2014 15:29, Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org> wrote:

> Recently, a change in sugar was made to not show a activity in the
> activities list,
> if the show_launcher == 'no' [1]
>
> As the activities list is the only way to uninstall a activity, or see the
> version installed,
> I would like to know what is the use case where this is needed.
>
> Probably, this option had sense in older versions of sugar,
> I don't know if is needed anymore.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Gonzalo Odiard
>
> SugarLabs - Learning Software for children
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/commit/f4638b5f481478e96195d55aa38c90fd33db9aee
>
> NOTE: The only activity I found using show_launcher = no was "Read", and I
> modified it.
>
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Daniel Narvaez
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